Isocitric Acid From Fermentation Of Sunflower Oil - A New Building Block For Pharma?

The citric acid cycle, one of the most important metabolic processes in our bodies, was formulated in 1937. Since then, all of the intermediates have been produced in multigram quantities - with one exception, (2R,3S)-isocitric acid. Athanassios Giannis and his team at the University of Leipzig have finally done it.

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Filed under: Biology on February 7th, 2008